Namibia is a southwestern African nation roughly twice the size of California, known for having the world’s oldest desert.

Water and air pose completely different challenges to animals on a number of levels.

Hungary is bone dry because of the lack of precipitation and the heatwave. As a result, the game may move away from the ...

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

Thousands of birds flying south for the winter stop off in Nigeria’s Hadejia Wetlands National Park. Researchers mapped the ...

In some of the toughest environments on Earth– think endless deserts and dry, cracked lands– certain animals have figured out how to live without drinking water. Not just for days, but sometimes for ...

Living in extreme heat takes more than tough skin. These animals have adapted with unique traits to survive blistering temperatures. From deserts to dry plains, they keep going when others would shut ...

The photo of a courageous mother lemur with a baby on her back, taking a harrowing jump in a ravine, won the California ...

In 1978, renowned ecologist Dan Janzen jumped into a ravine in Costa Rica, broke three ribs, and spent the first month of the ...

When applied to this conversion of a 2016 Harley-Davidson Roadster, though, the term is meant to signify the fact that the two-wheeler is capable not only of taking on deserts, but also snowy ...

During the late stages of the last ice age, the Arabian Desert wasn't always the dry expanse you know today. In fact, recent geological and climate research has revealed a very different past ...

But Heffelfinger said even these animals can use support. “If you're out there in the desert right now, and you think of yourself as a deer, it's pretty tough,” Heffelfinger said.